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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostWere they taking Range Rovers in part exchange?Comment
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Not sure about this. The cost of fillet steak at the local Waitrose has been £30.99 per kilo for the past 3 years...Don't ask Beaker. He's just another muppet.Comment
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Originally posted by beaker View PostNot sure about this. The cost of fillet steak at the local Waitrose has been £30.99 per kilo for the past 3 years...Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostShow offDon't ask Beaker. He's just another muppet.Comment
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Originally posted by beaker View PostNot sure about this. The cost of fillet steak at the local Waitrose has been £30.99 per kilo for the past 3 years...Comment
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Originally posted by ratewhore View PostIt's OK though - El Gordo is 'cautiously optimistic'...
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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Good that the price of chicken has gone up. Chicken was ridiclously cheap. I think you could get a whole barbecued chicken at the supermarket for about £1.50. How on earth can you raise a chicken from egg to grill and still make a profit out of £1.50?Comment
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Originally posted by thunderlizard View PostGood that the price of chicken has gone up. Chicken was ridiclously cheap. I think you could get a whole barbecued chicken at the supermarket for about £1.50. How on earth can you raise a chicken from egg to grill and still make a profit out of £1.50?
Say the final chicken weighs 1 kg, and over 50 days of its miserable life weighs 0.5 kg, on average.
Food required for lots of animals = 1 kWh per 22 kg per day**, so a 0.5 kg chicken needs 1/44 kWh / day, or 50/44 kWh over 50 days.
At 10pence per kWh (electricity energy prices*) = 33p per chicken. Not including lights, etc. To cook (oven uses say 3 kW, for an hour) = 3 kWh, so add 30p to cook. Total cost = 63p.
*I used electricity prices since I don't know how much chicken feed costs, though it has an energy content of around 3 kWh per kg.
** E.g. work it out for humans: 80 kg * 1 kWh / 22 kg/d = 3.6 kWh /d = 3.6 * 3,600,000 J / 4184 = 3128 Calories / day for a human. Birds tend to have a faster metabolism though, so might burn lots more and so increase the price.Comment
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